The RLP chief is pitted against BJP candidate Jyoti Mirdha, both Jat leaders (File)
Jaipur:
The Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) on Monday announced that its president Hanuman Beniwal will contest the upcoming Lok Sahha elections from Rajasthan’s Nagaur seat as the INDIA bloc candidate.
The Congress, which is also part of the opposition INDIA bloc, on Saturday announced candidates for two more Lok Sabha constituencies in Rajasthan but left the Nagaur seat for the RLP.
In a press release, the RLP said that Mr Beniwal will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Nagaur as a candidate from the INDIA bloc.
Mr Beniwal had won the seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls but it became vacant when he resigned as MP after being elected as MLA from Khinwsar in Nagaur district in December last year.
The RLP chief is pitted against BJP candidate Jyoti Mirdha, both Jat leaders.
The Lok Sabha elections in Rajasthan will be held in two phases: on April 19 and 26.
Nagaur is one of the 12 Lok Sabha seats where elections will be held in the first phase.
Beniwal, a former ally of the BJP, parted ways with the NDA in December 2020 over the farmers’ protest.
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